The presidents could bring it to a vote on Friday, but there is no consensus on whether such a policy should exist—let alone specific details. At this point, the presidents may not have enough support to even bring it to a vote. But if they do and it’s passed, the penalties for a first, second or third positive test would be the same for every school in the conference, rather than being determined by the schools individually.

The disparities currently are plentiful.

ESPN.com learned that a student-athlete at Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and LSU is dismissed after a fourth positive test for a recreational drug such as marijuana, heroin, cocaine or Ecstasy. The other 10 SEC schools have a maximum of three offenses before dismissal.

Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi State require student-athletes to miss 10 percent of the regular season after one positive test. The other 11 programs don’t suspend a student-athlete after the first failed test.

A second positive test results in a seven-day suspension at Missouri, while Auburn and Kentucky suspend offenders for 50 percent of the season and Vanderbilt issues a one-year suspension.

This is the second year this has been discussed at the spring meetings. The NCAA tests in every program nationally for performance enhancing drugs. One failed test results in a year-long suspension; a second is expulsion from college athletics.

Several athletic directors told ESPN.com they would rather regulate their own institutions’ policies.

“There are a lot of things we don’t do the same as other schools,” Alabama AD Bill Battle told the website. “The policy for a lot of schools has been undertesting and overpunishing.”

The level that would determine a passed or failed test, what kind of counseling for abusers would be available and whether the conference would hire an outside company to conduct the tests are just some of the issues that would need to be worked on.